Blane Doyle wrote:I've never played Dynasty Warriors, but I liked the characters in the original game enough to buy and play this even if it IS bad.
I think it is more that this is one of the newer games, possibly. There are multiple Hakuoki games (8, not counting the English releases) and I know other games have gameplay in the series (besides, I don't mind a hack and slash take on otome myself~). I think they just chose the last PSP game that had good sales that had a connection to the original visual novel.
I think they're going to stick to PSP releases instead of delving into the PS3 only games as well. Which sucks if they do, but it makes sense. I'd rather all the games be for one system myself anyway, and with PSN downloads you could play on both PSP and Vita potentially.
It is one of the newer games (released earlier this year) but another one has come out just last month. But I'm not sure if this one had good sales, seeing as even the Japanese fans complained about the awful controls. The only other games in the series that have gameplay are the Yugiroku series, like I mentioned before, which seems to be a lot more popular than this one. The only explination I came come up with is that they're targeting the male gamers, which I find lame, because there's plenty of games out there aimed at males already. And with the controls, I don't think this game will be popular with them either. Besides, otome games aren't meant to target males anyway (hence the name "otome")
As for an hack and slash take on otome, that's just it. This isn't an otome game in the sense that there's no dating sim aspect. It's purely an action game. And the artwork is different too, since Kazuki Yone is no longer drawing for this series.
I don't think they'll bother with the PS3 games because 1) they're not original titles, just ports 2) I don't think Sony will let them because they're not actually "games". There's a reason why there's no visual novels on the PS3, in English anyway.
I don't mean to be a downer, but a lot of the fans of the Japanese series are confused why Aksys picked this title out of all of them, as they view it as the weakest title. I personally don't think it was a great choice, but I'll wait to see if I'm proven wrong.